Fingernail clipper container

ABSTRACT

A fingernail clipper container which may be mounted on a conventional fingernail clipper so as to retain the cuttings and prevent their being scattered about during the clipping process. The container consists of two flat members which are mounted on each open side of a conventional open side fingernail clipper, with both side members being joined by an elastic or spring member that retains the side members in position without interfering with the normal movement of the clipping bars. A rectangular ring may be also employed to fasten the container sides to the clipper.

United States Patent 1 Fravel [54] FINGERNAIL CLIPPER CONTAINER [75]Inventor: Frank E. Fravel, Springfield, Ohio [73] Assignee: The RaymondLee Organization,

Inc., New York, N.Y.

[22] Filed: May 19, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 254,917

[52] US. Cl ..132/75.6 [51] Int. Cl. ..A45d 29/04 [58] Field of Search..l32/75.6, 75.5; 30/234, 188,

[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS Langley ..132/75.5 Plaskon..132/75 5 1 Mar. 27, 1973 3,299,505 1/1967 Pionck ..30/29 PrimaryExaminer-Louis G. Mancene Assistant Examiner-Gregory E. McNeillAttorney-Howard I. Podell [57] ABSTRACT A fingernail clipper containerwhich may be mounted on a conventional fingernail clipper so as toretain the cuttings and prevent their being scattered about during theclipping process. The container consists of two flat members which aremounted on each open side of a conventional open side fingernailclipper, with both side members being joined by an elastic or springmember that retains the side members in position without interferingwith the normal movement of the clipping bars. A rectangular ring may bealso employed to fasten the container sides to the clipper.

3 Claims, 3 Drawing Figures FINGERNAIL CLIPPER CONTAINER SUMMARY OF THEINVENTION This invention relates to a means of retaining the clippingsproduced by a fingernail clipper inside the clipper during the operationso as to prevent the unsanitary scattering of such cuttings.

An advantage of this invention is that the conventional open-sidedfingernail clipper may be readily modified, in accordance with theteachings of this invention.

The conventional fingernail clipper, to which this invention relates,consists of two flat spring metal members which are welded or joinedtogether at one common end, and shaped so as to naturally spring awayfrom each other at the free ends of the joined metal members, with thefree ends shaped and sharpened so as to be the cutting jaws of thedevice, when the free ends are forcibly brought together by the attachedcam lever mechanism. Since there is no covering of'the open sides in theconventional fingernail clipper, the cuttings fall through the opensides and in an unsanitary fashion.

In this invention, a flat side member is externally located to covereach open side of the fingernail clipper, with both side members joinedby a spring or elastic band, and with both side members held in positionby a rectangular band which fits about both side members and the shankof the fingernail clipper.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING The objects and features of theinvention may be understood with reference to the following detaileddescription of an illustrative embodiment of the invention, takentogether with the accompanying drawing in which:

FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the fingernailclipper and container;

FIG. 2 is a side view of the equipped fingernail clipper; and

FIG. 3 is a front view of the equipped fingernail clipper.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODlMEN'l Turning now descriptively tothe drawing in which similar reference characters denote similarelements throughout the several views, FIGS. 1-3 illustrate the clipper10 which consists of members 11 and 12 which are joined together at onecommon end 21 and are each spaced apart from each other at their otherfree end, with each free end sharpened in the form of a cutting jaw 13.The cutting jaws 13 of the members 11 and 12 are brought together by themanual movement of lever 14 which is fastened to pin 15.

Both open sides of the clipper 10 are covered by side cover members 16,which are joined together by a tension spring member 17 fastened byterminal 19 to each side cover member 16. An open rectangular ring 18 isalso mounted about the two side members 16 and the tail section 22 ofthe clipper 10.

The clipper may be readily cleaned by removal of the side members 16.With side members 16 in place, all nail cuttings are retained inside ofthe device in accordance with sanitary requirements.

Since obvious changes may be made in the specific embodiment of theinvention described herein, it is indicated that all matter containedherein is intended as illustrative and not as limiting in scope.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

i 1. A fingernail clipper container, which may be mounted about the opensides of a conventional fingernail clipper, so as to retain thefingernail cuttings and to

1. A fingernail clipper container, which may be mounted about the opensides of a conventional fingernail clipper, so as to retain thefingernail cuttings and to prevent their unsanitary dispersal,consisting of two relatively flat side members which are joined togetherby a spring member and held in place about the two open sides of thefingernail clipper by said spring member and by an open rectangular ringwhich is mounted over the said side members and the shank of thefingernail clipper.
 2. The combination recited in claim 1 in which thespring member is an elastic band.
 3. The combination recited in claim 1in which the spring member is a coiled spring.